This sensibility flows through the dreamy and ephemeral Falcon Lake, which sees 13-year-old Bastien (Joseph Engel) and 16-year-old Chloe (Sara Montpetit) embark on a will they-won’t they friendship during one balmy summer in the picturesque Laurentides region of Québec.īased on the graphic novel Une Soeur by Bastien Vivès, this adaptation introduces us to Bastien at an awkward age: a gangly pre-teen whose biggest fear in life is to be caught masturbating by his parents.
It’s apt that multihyphenate Charlotte Le Bon – who in her short career has already ticked off modelling, presenting and acting – described a 2016 exhibition of her illustrations as “the expression of poetic isolation”.
First-time director Charlotte Le Bon draws out sweet performances from her young co-stars in this idyllic coming-of-ager.
